Now this is one awesome poem - I know I'll be reading it again. I hope Medium's algorithm gives you credit $$$ - Jenine Bsharah Baines

…a choice is not really 
a choice…
and work in this fucking fantasy land is not 
really satisfying, it is just a thing that numbs 
the mind and causes you to forget your dreams 
and lose sight of the kind of person you really are 
in all the ways that really matter, 
you know, like, when it comes to being 
a real and alive human being…
with individual thoughts, hopes, desires…
and we’re all just sitting on a shelf waiting 
for the bo…
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Now this is one awesome poem - I know I'll be reading it again. I hope Medium's algorithm gives you credit $$$
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Written by Jenine Bsharah Baines3K Followers
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J…Jen…Jeni…Jenine... Proper names are poetry in the raw. (W.H. Auden) Poet, singer, seeker, hippie grandmother gleefully revealing herself
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